When I was younger there were a lot of great things I can remember, but mostly I always end up thinking straight back to the things I've got to do with my parents. About a year ago during Football season, college football was heating up, and there was a big game on Saturday between my favorite team and Texas A&M at College Station. I was excited either way, because the Texas Tech website said the game was going to be on channel 8. My dad knew I was a Tech fan and I had told him that whatever plans he had that day for me were going to have to wait, because the game was at 2p.m. in the Afternoon...When I woke up that Saturday Morning to my alarm, the clock said 7a.m., and I thouht I ain't about to get up that early-until my dad walked in my room holding four tickets-and I couldn't beleive what he had done for me. That wasn't it though...We ended up meeting with some people we knew down there and I got to experience "Tail-Gating an hour before the game. The game ended up being an ESPN Classic on Sunday after Texas Tech won 35-34 with a 60 yard touchdown completion with 6 seconds left in the game. It felt like I was the only one in the whole stadium who was yelling and jumping up and down after that.(Even my parents didn't beleive Texas Tech would pull off the win in such an amazing finish. My dad told me later that he was glad he got those tickets.)
That was my most recent favorite memory, but I know there are so many more family memories I could tell you about...
My favorite school memories are from Junior High. There were so many more things us kids were allowed to do than High School, like our 6th, 7th and 8th class fieldtrips out of town. My favorite trip was the 7th grade trip when we went to San Antonio. We had Timmy's dad as our chaperone, and he let us kids stay up real late, go to the lobby at night, and even though the principal said we weren't allowed to go, he tried to let us swim; The Principal caught us...My dad was my chaperone on the school's 8th grade trip to Houston-and that was a lot of fun-, but sometimes it's just nice to get away for a little while and have fun.
My very best, favorite sport is Basketball, and as a Freshman, I wanted to play on the Varsity Basketball team. Problem was, I wasn't even the best player on J.V.!!, so after my Freshman season, I was determined to make myself good enough to be on Varsity...I worked the whole Summer on lifting weights, and good form shooting and dribbling, even during Football season, after practice I would workout at Basketball. One Saturday afternoon-the last weekend before Football was over with-I badly sprained my ankle being stupid, and so dissapointedly was told I probably wasn't going to get to play Basketball(after all that haaaaarrrrrrrd work!!!!!!). I wasn't going to let that happen though. About halfway through the season I finally had my ankle a little bit better, but was risking it if I played on it. But I tried it, not knowing how rusty I would be, and my first game back on J.V., I scored 18 points in a win against Boles. My second game, against our toughest district opponent Bland, I hit 3 trays and had 14 points in our 2 point victory over them. My extreme talent on J.V. went on surprisingly (with a bad ankle) for a couple more games,...Until my oppurtunity finally came to move up to Varsity.
The varsity lost every district game this year, but I was still happy I overcame everyone's doughts of me not doing good when I played this year, and better yet not getting to play.
My whole life I've been doing things for myself to get me a step above all the rest, and have let my parents, and family do for me all the time. I know that it's a lot easier when you let people do things for you, but there are so many things that cancel out for it too. People want you to care about them too, and when they realize that I only expect from them, they figure that I am sellfish, and they don't expect much of anything out of me anymore.
That's not how I want to be known, because I know there is good in me, and am willing to do whatever it takes to make people think differently about me. It is the least I could do for my family, because they have already done so much for me-so expect me to be more greatful, giving, and caring(if that is possible for me).
I've lived with my parents, and my brother practically my whole life. I'm so used to having their company every day, having someone to talk to about my good and bad days at school, living in a room for no charge to me, not having to pay for much at all because my parents always do that for me, and just having everything a kid like me could ask for. All of those things my parents have given to me, and I've learned from experiences that a lot of other kids don't have that. Even though everyone gets a little mad sometimes, and we say "dang, when are they gonna let go, and finally trust me to drive!!!", and a lot of things like that that I think about like letting me grow up, but there is going to be plenty of time for growing up on my own. I'm mostly worried about when I go off to college in a few years. There will be just too many things for me to remember and keep up with. I'll have to learn how to live on my own and pay rent. Make it on time for all of my classes and my job, while having to remember every test that comes up. And learn how to do laundry and find time to buy myself clothes, and at some point, I want to have a little fun...College is probably where it starts for me.
What I normally do on a daily basis is start to worry about what homework I have for the night. I think about what order I plan doing it all in; "I want to be able to watch the Mavs' game at 8 o'clock tonight, so I need to get Geometry's 60 problems done first, then once I get my brain rollin' I think I'll do our daily Spanish and learn 40 more words and more ways to use their unorthodox way of putting a sentence together, then I'll study for a test tomorrow..." There's just so much stuff I have to do at night, I hardly get any downtime for myself on a weeknight. The little time I get, I practice with the Football or Basketball, since I don't really want to learn any more stuff I can do for fun because I'm tired of thinking by that time. I let myself have fun practicing throwing the football or shooting the basketball because I take that time to just let my energy out and make up creative moves for fun...
Growing up, as far as I can remember, both my parents have always been hard working. They've taught me that to be successfull in life, I can't be lazy, I have to work hard. In school first, because your grades determine what kind of job you'll have. They said no matter how much more I like having fun and playing sports, there will be lots of time for that when some opportunities come around, and those other kids that I think are cool because they cheat and only work hard in sports; Those are the kind that will be working fast food when they grow up and wonder "What happened?!!". I feel that all I have to do is work hard in school and take everything I remembered in school to college with me. If I can develop a good work ethic in between now and 7 years from now, I hope to become a Lawyer or maybe an Engineer of some sort.
I hope to get married someday. Whenever I feel that I have all of the qualities a mature adult has, is when I'll be ready to be married, although it will be hard giving up all of the dumb, yet fun things I love to do. I also hope to become a lot closer to my brother as an adult, because sometimes now with me and him fighting it feels like me and him won't ever be close. And I hope to make my parents even more proud of me, by telling them that I probably should have listened to everything they told me I needed to do as a kid (since they both always tell me now how they wish they would have listened to their parents).